Intended for use by high school students, this book is made up of resource materials which collectively trace the history of the Negro in America. Included are newspaper articles, poems, and relevant excerpts from novels, reports, and scholarly discussions. Each of the fifteen "problems" into which these materials are organized is accompanied by brief introductory discussion and pertinent study questions. The readings cover aspects of slavery and the Negro in the South, Negro leadership, politics and the Negro, the Chicago race riot, the Little Rock school crisis, and class structure in the Negro community. (LB)